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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Brigadoon (1954) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Brigadoon (1954) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Brigadoon (1954).
About the movie:
Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Brigadoon (1954)?
a.
Director of Photography David Armstrong has a cameo as a policeman in the flashback where Emma is discovered playing the piano.
b.
In March 1951,
Kathryn Grayson
was announced in the role eventually played by
Cyd Charisse
.
c.
When Jack Sparrow is at Tia Dalmas hut, there is a necklace on the table when Jack is stealing the ring. The picture on the necklace is the same image on the music box on Davy Jones pipe organ, a hint to a major plot point in the third film.
d.
Shannon Lucid
: the astronaut who made headlines for setting endurance records for living in space aboard the Mir Space Station is in the background of the "underwater simulation" scenes.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Brigadoon (1954)?
a.
This was Marion Morrisons first movie role and the producers didnt like his name. They told
Raoul Walsh
(the director) Morrison needed a new name. Several names were suggested, Mr Walsh had just read about general Anthony (Mad Anthony) Wayne, he suggested Wayne; the studio added John and the rest was history.
b.
Gene Kelly
wanted
Moira Shearer
to play the role of Fiona, however Shearer declined preferring to perform on the classical stage.
c.
On the last day of their week long Army Ranger orientation at Fort Benning, the actors who portrayed the Rangers received a letter which had been anonymously slipped under their door. The letter thanked them for all their hard work, and asked them to "tell our story true", signed with the names of the Rangers who died in the Mogadishu firefight.
d.
The third and final film to be fully produced at Disneys Orlando, Florida animation facility at the Walt Disney World Disney-MGM Theme Park (after
Mulan
and
Lilo & Stitch
). This studio was shut down in March 2004 in favor of computer animated features.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Brigadoon (1954)?
a.
The long-horned cow was scary for Gene Kelly. (I) For his scene with the animal, he ordered that it be blindfolded and chained to the floor. Plastic eyes were attached to the blindfold.
b.
The deer brought back by the hunters were real road-kill deer.
c.
Ben Campbell
: the real life Ben Campbell as a Planet Hollywood blackjack dealer.
d.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
had a real battle with the American censors at the time who would not permit him to use words like "laxative" and "toilet" in his script. He got his revenge with a famous double-entendre laden exchange which used words like "penetration" and "saturation".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Brigadoon (1954)?
a.
The little boy who appears waiting by the photo-booth while Clark Kent changes into Superman was actually the same little boy who played baby Kal-El (Superman) in
Superman
.
b.
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
c.
Although one of the greatest female dancers in the history of the movie musical,
Cyd Charisse
singing in films was almost always dubbed, most notably by
Carol Richards
in
Brigadoon
.
d.
A large number of actors listed in studio records did not appear in the movie:
Charles Williams
(Max Morton),
Eddie Conrad
(Hal Gibbs),
Mary Forbes
(Lady Hilda),
Carl Alfalfa Switzer
(Small Boy),
Darla Hood
(Sister) and
Armand Kaliz
(Count). The movie was heavily edited; Joan Crawford recorded three songs, all of which were cut.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Brigadoon (1954)?
a.
The interior scenes of the Cherry Street bed and breakfast were not filmed inside the actual house. The only times the crew entered the house at all were to turn on lamps for the proper lighting effects needed for the exterior shots.
b.
To get the effect of Brigadoon emerging from the mist,
Vincente Minnelli
filmed the sets with the fog being pumped in, then reversed the shot to show the mist moving away.
c.
The restaurant seen in the film was built on the Universal Studios back-lot and could be seen on studio tours in 1975.
d.
So far, this film still has the longest running time of any Star Trek movie. In fact, until the release of
Star Trek
this was the only one to break the two-hour mark.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Brigadoon (1954)?
a.
The Ford on the movie cover was never used in the movie.
b.
The highland backdrops were over 600 feet long, and 60 feet high, and cost $382,280.
c.
The shots of the horsemen riding on the road were the first scenes shot for the movie. They were shot two days before the rest of the filming began.
d.
The film is considered to be a western by the films writers and producer.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Brigadoon (1954)?
a.
Pat Hingle
landed the title role, but before filming began, he became caught in a stalled elevator in his apartment building. He lost his balance while trying to crawl out and fell 54 feet down the shaft. He sustained massive injuries, including a fractured skull, wrist, hip and leg, and several broken ribs. He also lost his little finger on his left hand. Hingle spent much of the next year relearning how to walk and was forced to give up the part in order to recover from his horrific injuries.
b.
After the scene where Linus tells Rusty about Benedicts girl, who Rusty identifies as Tess, Dannys ex-wife, Rusty confronts Danny about it. When he tells them they need to talk, Danny places a handful of the fake chips his team has created in his jacket pocket, presumably to use in the casino.
c.
Hilts (
Steve McQueen
) strings a wire across the road to obtain a motorcycle. McQueen himself played the German motorcyclist who hits the wire.
d.
As with
The Robe
and
Oklahoma!
, two completely separate versions of this film were produced simultaneously, requiring separate takes. One version was in CinemaScope and the other had a 1.75:1 aspect ratio.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Brigadoon (1954)?
a.
The same green off-the-shoulder blouse (with black filigree pattern) that
Susan Hayward
wears while singing "The Right Kind" (music by
Lionel Newman
, and
Charles Henderson
, lyrics by
Don George
) in a nightclub number was later worn by
Marilyn Monroe
in
Bus Stop
, produced by the same studio, Twentieth Century-Fox.
b.
This film was used for many years by MGM as an example of a perfect comedy. The studio would get all its directors and producers to watch it and learn. Only two scenes were improvised on the spot by
Buster Keaton
: one was the baseball scene, and the other is the piggybank scene.
c.
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in the film is actually the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. It is a separate building at Dulles International Airport, administered by the Smithsonian, and home of most of the aircraft exhibited. The exterior of the Museum, an aircraft boneyard in the film, was actually the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group in Tuscon, Arizona.
d.
The background set was so realistic that some birds from outside flew into it.
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